Steel Forging Drive Shaft

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Drive shafts


A shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft is a power drive shaft, used in equipment, automobile, ship and other industries. It is a mechanical component for transmitting torque and rotation, usually used to connect other components of a drive train that cannot be connected directly because of distance or the need to allow for relative movement between them.

As torque carriers, drive shafts are subject to torsion and shear stress, equivalent to the difference between the input torque and the load. They must therefore be strong enough to bear the stress, whilst avoiding too much additional weight as that would in turn increase their inertia.

To allow for variations in the alignment and distance between the driving and driven components, drive shafts frequently incorporate one or more universal joints, jaw couplings, or rag joints, and sometimes a splined joint or prismatic joint.

Shandong Laiduan Machinery Co.,ltd offers free forgings, pipe mould and other designed forgings. Our company is a successful manufacturer and supplier, we devoted ourselves to oil and gas industries, wind energy industries, machinery industries , iron and steel industries and so on for many years.



The materials is S45C, 1045, C45, 45#

C	Cr	Mn	Ni	P	S	Si
0.42~0.50	=0.25	0.50~0.80	=0.25	=0.035	=0.035	0.17~0.37




Hot treatment

1	2	3	4	5
Normalizing	Annealing	Quenching	Tempering	Quenching and tempering

The heat tratment as followed: